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  1. orcishbard:

    on the topic of rewriting racist d&d narratives

    it takes work, yes!

    it’s worth it. for both you and your players, but especially for new players who can see the game in different ways than you

    examples I’ve written that you should feel free to use:

    -orcs: rather than give in to the weird “tribal savages who fight all the time,” consider connecting orcs and their inate strength/constitution to the earth. in my most recent campaign setting, orcs are descended from a human champion who bested an earth primordial; the primordial, impressed with their strength, blessed them and their descendents with powerful tusks and a greater constitution.

    -drow: instead of the entire drow narrative being “they’re dark skinned and bad because they betrayed the fair skinned elves and their gods,” consider playing up their connection to spiders. perhaps they worshiped a spider God who gave them the ability to blend into their darkened surroundings. if you’re married to their current aesthetic appearance, take care to present multiple drow societies that have different outlooks; not a homogenous race of black skinned slavers. consider pigmentless drow, who’ve lost all skin color because they never see the light of day. drow who use echolocation? distancing your drow from the bad connotations carried by the current zeitgeist is a useful endeavor

    -include elves of color in your game

    -drop the ‘tribal’ aesthetic and the connotations that goblins and other monstrous races have. it’s lazy (note, tribes and other similar social structures are still perfectly valid social structures; but if the only example of them in your game world is the violent, monstrous people who seek to destory “civilized communities” that sends a bad message about real life tribes and their validity

    -focus less on race and more on societies; a society can be evil or good, but a race cannot

    -consider that fantasy races have no reason to conform to any gendered structures (especially our current human binary). dwarvish societies who express their varied and fluid genders through beard braiding. elvish societies who reproduce asexually. don’t limit yourself to what you can relate to from a 21st century human perspective

    it takes a bit of elbow grease to decolonize your d&d, and the process is never done, but in my own experience, it’s only ever lead to more innovative and engaging experiences!

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  2. toastpotent:

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  3. dagny-hashtaggart:

    hazoretspartyfavors:

    prussianmemes:

    i almost forgot this blessed video exists

    Wait there’s another one of these

    If memory serves, what happened was that someone took a video of a Ukrainian military band playing some other song and dubbed a realistic-sounding version of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis over it. This proceeded to be everywhere on the internet, enough so that the band that put on the original performance caught wind of it, and decided to capitalize on its popularity by actually performing the song. This video is the latter version.

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  4. pipistrellus:

    “Historical menswear, but hotpants and thigh highs” is such the ideal that I wanna die … this is why I like hnk so much???

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  6. absorbednebula:

    Vr chat is just anarchy

    (Source: dankmememessiahh)

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  7. captainsnoop:

    shinzo-abe-official:

    captainsnoop:

    captainsnoop:

    i went in to a cells at work thread on 4chan’s /a/ because i can’t help but immerse myself in sludge and the whole thread was anons talking about how they’ve been eating better and drinking more water because they want the anime girls that live inside of them to be happier 

    shinzo abe you son of a bitch, you did it. 

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    cells at work is an anime about anthropomorphic cells living in a human body, depicted as a large city 

    otaku on 4chan watched the show and, in a desire to make the cells in their bodies happy, have started to live healthier lives 

    shinzo abe, the prime minister of japan and noted son of a bitch, actually managed to get anime viewers to start taking care of themselves through anime 

    Mission accomplished, now fuck already.

    baby steps, mister prime minister. 

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  8. lesbiankiliel:

    garashirs:

    everyone in fantasy novels is horny on main for elves and it’s honestly a travesty like why the hell would you want to marry an elf you’ll just spend the rest of your days growing old in the woods with a bunch of immortal bastards whose heads are so far up their asses they think singing week-long ballads is prime entertainment and say shit like “thou” and “beseech” unironically y'all should be hooking up with dwarves who 1. actually know how to throw the fuck down and let loose at a party 2. will literally shower you in diamond dust and gold they mined and crafted with their bare hands and 3. can sling you over their shoulder like a sack of potatoes with their huge muscular arms developed from hours of said mining and crafting. there’s literally no contest.

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    (Source: hexglyphs)

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  9. bunjywunjy:

    this advertising is so effective that it made me want to go buy a brand that’s been defunct for 40-something years

    (Source: Porterr-Robinson)

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  10. illicitmemedealer: “”

    illicitmemedealer:

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  11. mayaoishiina:

    mayaoishiina:

    me: hey, make sure to give me your characters backstory so i can include it in the campaign, don’t worry about sending too much or making it too detailed the more you send me the more I can work in about their past

    my players: 

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    People reblogging this post to jokingly shame themselves or their players:

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    DMs reblogging this to complain about players who aren’t great at RP or players who aren’t creative enough to give a character a fully fleshed out backstory:

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  13. ohdionne:

    I’m gonna be blunt: you bring little worth to a friendship if you’re apathetic toward the good in your friends’ lives. If you shrug when they come to you with little things that they’re happy about, they will eventually stop coming to you with anything and you’ll wonder why that relationship feels stale. Practice genuine excitement with the people in your life. If you see a friend try to downplay how excited they are about something just be like “yoooo! This is a cool thing! You’re a lovely person and you deserve lovely things! I love you!“ 

    I think it’s easy to be someone people complain to, but it’s just as if not more important to be someone they know they’re allowed to be excited and proud and happy around.

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    Tags: #rbing because this happened to me recently #rip

  14. otherwindow:

    otherwindow:

    toloveviceforitself:

    otherwindow:

    otherwindow:

    i don’t know what’s cooler tbh: 

    • Demon horns being broken halos from when they were angels. 
    • Demons willingly grow their own halos, but never complete the circle to symbolize their rebellion against heaven’s strict order. 

    In addition to the second one, angels are GIVEN their halos rather than earning them. Demons like Lucifer rebelled for freedom and individuality, thus demon horns all look different compared to an angel’s boring halo.

    Horns are useful tools, but if you join them into a circle they become useless badges of authority.

    And the thing about wearing a badge is that you become a symbol of someone else. You’re not you, you’re an extension of the entity whose authority you’re borrowing. You can’t be yourself until you ditch it

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    Here’s a visual representation of angels and demons.

    I figure that as angels, their “horns” would glow when connected to become traditional halos. However, this blinds the angel with heavenly light, making the angel rely on God’s guidance.

    Angels who break their halos become demons, and willingly grow their horns in obscure shapes so it won’t connect back into a halo. Because the halo no longer blinds them, demons can finally see but can no longer communicate with God for guidance – the light they once gave to heaven now belongs to them, hence demons being proficient with fire allowing them to see in the dark.

    Extra notes on horns & halos:

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    Circular horns (Halos) are smooth and easy for God to “grab” like a chain.

    Jagged horns are sharp to the touch and can pierce God.

    Crucial notes I forgot to add:

    • The only way angels can break their own halos is through strong, direct, hard force; rebellious angels willingly fell from heaven, breaking their halos upon hitting our world’s surface. That’s why demons are called “fallen angels”.
    • The only thing that can hurt God and other angels is another angel, so the shattered remains of a demon’s old halo would be reformed into tridents and pitchforks commonly associated with the devil.
    • Regretful demons wishing to commune with God again would either try to grow their horns back into a halo, or clasp their hands in prayer to form a circle with their own body mimicking a halo. It would faintly work. These demons would become the first priests, and spread the practice to humans. 
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  15. tomhollahoe:

    NEW INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE TRAILER!!!!

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